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Pd-metal graphite (Pd-MG) has a layered structure, where each Pd sheet is sandwiched between adjacent graphene sheets. DC magnetization and AC magnetic susceptibility of Pd-MG have been measured using a SQUID magnetometer. Pd-MG undergoes a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-16 Masatsugu Suzuki , Itsuko S. Suzuki , Jürgen Walter

We report experimental results indicating possible high-temperature superconductivity in graphite intercalation compounds synthesized with lithium-based alloys. Temperature-dependent measurements of magnetization, trapped magnetic flux, and…

The influence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field on the magnetoresistance of thin Al films, used in different superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids, has been investigated. Two contrasting magnetic textures with out-of-plane magnetization are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Gillijns , A. Aladyshkin , A. V. Silhanek , V. V. Moshchalkov

Graphite under high magnetic field exhibits consecutive metal-insulator (MI) transitions as well as re-entrant insulator-metal (IM) transition in the quasi-quantum limit at low temperature. In this paper, we identify the low-$T$ insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Zhiming Pan , Xiao-Tian Zhang , Ryuichi Shindou

We identify a magnetic field induced transition from a vortex liquid to Bose metal in a 2-dimensional amorphous superconductor, a-MoGe, using a combination of magnetotransport and scanning tunnelling spectroscopy (STS). Below the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-12 Surajit Dutta , John Jesudasan , Pratap Raychaudhuri

The superconductor-insulator transition in two dimensions has been widely investigated as a paradigmatic quantum phase transition. The topic remains controversial, however, because many experiments exhibit a metallic regime with saturating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 C. G. L. Bøttcher , F. Nichele , M. Kjaergaard , H. J. Suominen , J. Shabani , C. J. Palmstrøm , C. M. Marcus

Magnetic-field tuned superconductor to insulator transition was observed in a novel hybrid system of granular superconducting indium, deposited on indium oxide thin film, which exhibits global superconductivity at low magnetic fields. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-25 Bar Hen , Xinyang Zhang , Victor Shelukhin , Aharon Kapitulnik , Alexander Palevski

Epitaxial graphene films have been formed on the C-face of semi-insulating 4H-SiC substrates by a high temperature sublimation process. Nano-scale square antidot arrays have been fabricated on these graphene films. At low temperatures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Shen , Y. Q. Wu , M. A. Capano , L. R. Rokhinson , L. W. Engel , P. D. Ye

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-31 Liang Zheng Tan , Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

A metal-insulator transition was induced by in-plane magnetic fields up to 27 T in homogeneously Sb-doped Si/SiGe superlattice structures. The localisation is not observed for perpendicular magnetic fields. A comparison with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-10 G. Brunthaler , T. Dietl , A. Prinz , M. Sawicki , J. Jaroszynski , P. Glod , F. Schaffler , G. Bauer , D. K. Maude , J. C. Portal

We present a comprehensive theoretical study of the magnetic field dependence of the near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) between two parallel plates. We show that when the plates are made of doped semiconductors, the near-field…

As a superconducting thin film becomes disordered and subject to an increasing magnetic field, a point is reached when it undergoes a transition from a superconducting to an insulating state. We use the Bogoliubov-De-Gennes equations and a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Yonatan Dubi , Yigal Meir , Yshai Avishai

We report transport measurements in HgTe-based quantum wells with well width of 8 nm, corresponding to quantum spin Hall state, subject to in-plane magnetic field. In the absence of the magnetic field the local and nonlocal resistances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 G. M. Gusev , E. B. Olshanetsky , Z. D. Kvon , O. E. Raichev , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky

Rhombohedral stacked multilayer graphene displays the occurrence of a magnetic surface state at low temperatures. Recent angular resolved photoemission experiments demonstrate the robustness of the magnetic state in long sequences of ABC…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-22 Jacopo Baima , Francesco Mauri , Matteo Calandra

We consider quasi-two-dimensional gas of electrons in a typical Si-MOSFET, assuming repulsive contact interaction between electrons. Magnetisation and susceptibility are evaluated within the mean-field approach. Finite thickness of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 D. I. Golosov

Electrical magnetoresistance and tunnel diode oscillator measurements were performed under external magnetic fields up to 41 T applied along the crystallographic b-axis (hard axis) of UTe$_2$ as a function of temperature and applied…

A magnetic field applied parallel to the two-dimensional hole system in the GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure, which is metallic in the absence of an external magnetic field, can drive the system into insulating at a finite field through a well…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Jongsoo Yoon , C. C. Li , D. Shahar , D. C. Tsui , M. Shayegan

Based on the analytical technique the effect of the static magnetic field on the s-wave holographic superconductor with dark matter sector of U(1)-gauge field type coupled to the Maxwell field has been examined. In the probe limit, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 L. Nakonieczny , M. Rogatko , K. I. Wysokinski

We develop a finite temperature mean field theory in the path integral picture for an extremely dilute system of interacting Fermions in a plane. In the limit of short ranged interactions, the system is shown to undergo a phase transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Agarwal , S. G. Rajeev

The optical conductivity of graphite in quantizing magnetic fields is analytically evaluated for frequencies in the range of 10--300 meV, where the electron relaxation processes can be neglected and the low-energy excitations at the "Dirac…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 L. A. Falkovsky